Eye care and blindness prevention in resource-limited areas of the world continues to present many challenges. Blindness from cataracts remains the number one cause of blindness in our world
and it can be easily treated. This session looks at ways
to deliver effective, safe,
and cost-effective cataract screening, surgery, and follow up to communities where reliable eye care is either lacking or nonexistent. The discussion will be based on the example and experience of the Tenwek Eye Unit in south- western Kenya.
Community Health Evangelism (CHE) has been continuously in process in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for 20 years. It started very small with one village, but has multiplied dramatically and now is being used by over 500 villages in the Central DRC. The unique effectiveness of this program has been evaluated carefully by outside respected experts. This evaluation has suggested that CHE has reduced both infant mortality and malnutrition by 50%. In addition its effect on villages’ self esteem and spiritual growth has been described as unparalleled in the 30-year experience of one outside expert evaluator. The area has had no outside missionaries residing in the area for 14 years, and receives less than $50,000 (USD) per year in outside support.
Learn how to identify, recruit, mobilize, and empower
the Christian leader of the 21st Century who can lead community health and development ministries in this age of globalization. Learn why this is one of the five key components of the PEACE Plan.
Scores of creative ministries are providing quality healthcare to marginalize people in the name of Jesus here in the United States. This session will look at the problems of access of care for the poor, and the problems of sustainability and spiritual care integration for health and healing ministries who work with under-resourced communities. We will share several best-practice models of care that are providing superior care to the sickest and neediest among us, and doing it as both an expression of and a platform for the Gospel of the Kingdom of God.
